# RP005A — Package interpretation and disposition review

Date: 2026-10-11. Explicit internal post-outcome review of the finite Cycle 01 commitment. Package RP-005A; Test TST-RP005A001; Result R-RP005A001. Decision D-0007 records the disposition. This review uses preserved evidence, collects no new research data and is not external peer review.

## Review question and acceptance basis

Has the declared restrictions study delivered the structural edge-removal inclusion, V0–V2 regimes, greedy/short/sufficient planner profiles, constraint-relative primary coverage, underlying secondary coverage and the conditional-benefit interpretation lock? The frozen baseline sets that commitment. The pre-outcome PC03 supplement declares the graphs, targets, rewards, restriction rules, exact tie-breaking, separate planning/future budgets and finite verification contract.

Accept the specified finite commitment. Its constructive cases demonstrate that a supplied restriction can improve post-action target options for this short-horizon reward planner, can be unnecessary, and can harm those options. The structural inclusion and selection/deletion decomposition explain why this is compatible with losing paths. Completion requires retaining every adverse outcome and interpretation boundary; it does not require a positive result in every regime or settle arbitrary-domain reachability.

## Deliverable-by-deliverable review

| Required work | Preserved evidence and assessment |
| --- | --- |
| Structural inclusion | Pure edge removal retains only original paths with the same unit transition cost. All 35 source records verify inclusion both without a budget and at B=3, with 313 ordered source/destination checks per family. No new reachable node appears. |
| V0 unnecessary restriction | Removing s→b leaves selected a and primary coverage 3/5 at H=1/2/4. Every paired difference is zero, while source-level unbounded target options fall 5/5→3/5. |
| V1 attractive delayed-cost trap | Removing s→b changes b→a at H=1/2, increasing primary coverage 2/5→3/5. H=4 already selects a in both arms and gives zero difference. The restriction designer knows the complete graph. |
| V2 harmful over-restriction | Removing s→a forces b at every H, lowering primary and underlying coverage 3/5→2/5. All three negative differences remain in the record. |
| Auxiliary C0 control | Removing s→b and a→t3 leaves selected a unchanged but lowers feasible target coverage 3/5→2/5. Original-graph underlying coverage stays 3/5. The fixed denominator exposes this downstream deletion loss. |
| Three planner profiles | H=1/2/4 use exact truncated integer reward maximization and lexical destination tie-breaking in both arms. Only the admissible edges change. One action is executed; H=4 is sufficient for these supplied graphs only. |
| Primary/secondary measures | The original five terminal targets and B=3 remain fixed. Every row saves target IDs, candidate scores, endpoints and counts. Coverage is existential bounded reachability, not visitation, indefinite safety or a viability kernel. |
| Difference decomposition | Every exact primary Delta equals original-graph selection S plus restricted-graph deletion L, with L≤0. Secondary coverage is explicitly counterfactual when it includes forbidden paths. |
| Complete coverage and verification | All 24 planner rows, 12 paired comparisons and 35 structural records independently replay, including exact ordering, types, all values and both inclusion families. Enumeration and shortest-distance reconstruction import no producer calculation code. |
| Registration and provenance | Source commit fe796a089df3e53101c20a20358391e84f59fc13 precedes recorded outcomes. All sixteen input hashes and seven output hashes match; all eight run files were committed before outcome interpretation. Test, Result and audit-stage report remain preserved. |
| Execution and stopping | One deterministic attempt, Python 3.12.14, no audit network or seeds, 0.024353542 monotonic seconds and 28.08 MiB peak RSS satisfy the fixed 60-second/128-MiB bounds. No failure, retry or outcome-dependent protocol change occurred. |
| Prior art and interpretation | The targeted primary-source review acknowledges familiar graph planning, truncated optimization and constrained horizon control, with inspection limits. It grants no novelty clearance, control-stability guarantee, learned-rule advantage or normative prescription. |

The preparation and preserved-audit checks passed again for this review without creating a new run. Repository schema validation also checks the complete run against its first committed snapshot. These checks establish artifact integrity; this separate review supplies the interpretation and disposition judgment.

## All paired outcomes retained

| Regime | H=1 primary difference | H=2 primary difference | H=4 primary difference | Interpretation |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| V0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Same endpoint; no policy gain despite lost source options. |
| V1 | +1/5 | +1/5 | 0 | Short-horizon endpoint selection improves; sufficient horizon already avoids the trap. |
| V2 | -1/5 | -1/5 | -1/5 | The useful branch is removed. |
| C0 | -1/5 | -1/5 | -1/5 | Same endpoint; one future target path is deleted. |

The count remains two positive, four zero and six negative paired comparisons. These are designed fixtures and correlated horizon evaluations, not sampled restriction-benefit frequencies or twelve independent replicates. +1/5 denotes twenty percentage points of the original target universe. No smaller surviving-target denominator or beneficial-only pooling is accepted.

V1's positive Delta comes entirely from S; its L is zero at selected a. V2's negative Delta comes entirely from S. C0's negative Delta comes entirely from L. From original source s, unbounded coverage declines to 3/5 in V0/V1 and 2/5 in V2/C0. V1's original and restricted source-level B=3 target coverage are both 3/5, while post-action b has 2/5: the source and post-action budget origins must remain distinct.

## Scientific limits and remaining questions

The rule is supplied using full graph knowledge; neither learning nor enforcement cost is modeled. The reward objective is not target coverage. Forced first-action execution, exact deterministic DAGs, terminal targets, unit transition costs, arbitrary lexical labels and B=3 define the comparison. A sufficient horizon can remove the apparent benefit in V1. Structural deletion loss never becomes structural expansion.

Q-2 remains ACTIVE. Rule discovery under partial information, uncertain dynamics, enforcement/design costs, repeated decisions, robust safety, larger graphs, alternative rewards/targets, query-dependent representations and general benefit prevalence remain open. These extensions require a new scoped protocol and relevant prior-art review before execution or broader claims; they are not silently assigned to an invented receiving Cycle. No universal need for restrictions, ethical prescription, new theorem, empirical frequency or broad Claim is promoted.

## Package and Cycle disposition

Accept RP-005A's declared Cycle 01 commitment as completed. Set RP-005A to CLOSED and resolve only the `rp005a` package-disposition obligation as `completed` under D-0007, with evidence links to this review, the audited report, scoped Result and decision. Retain RP002A/RP003/RP004 resolutions and all thirteen equal weights. Nine obligations remain unresolved; progress becomes 4/13 (30.8%) and Cycle 01 stays ACTIVE.

The original audit-stage report retains its historical ACTIVE/pending-disposition and 3/13 statement. Test TST-RP005A001, Result R-RP005A001, frozen inputs and run bytes remain unchanged. Current views link this review as the subsequent disposition. This review completes no Checkpoint A, graph validation, whole-Cycle synthesis, Foundation Review, transition or close bundle.

Next is Checkpoint A and the required research-graph review, with DAM X's supplied-source dependency kept visible. No DAM X pilot or blocked disposition is created here; its obligation remains unresolved. Do not start Cycle 2 without the required Cycle 01 reviews and transition decision.

Reopen RP-005A through a new recorded Decision if an artifact/hash mismatch, replay or coverage defect, wrong endpoint/score, violated budget, invalid Result or material interpretation error changes this assessment. Revisit its Cycle obligation then. Preserve original evidence; never repair the record by overwriting the run or frozen protocol.

## Evidence references

- [Preserved audit-stage report](https://autorite.net/sources/rp005a-audit-001/)
- [Pre-outcome operational protocol](https://autorite.net/sources/rp005a-operational-protocol/), [implementation review](https://autorite.net/sources/rp005a-audit-execution-review/) and [source freeze](https://autorite.net/sources/rp005a-source-freeze/)
- [Targeted prior-art review](https://autorite.net/sources/rp005a-prior-art/)
- [Fixture controls](https://github.com/omasim/Autorite/blob/main/research/RP005A/RP005A_FIXTURES.json) and [complete immutable run](https://github.com/omasim/Autorite/tree/main/research/RP005A/runs/audit-20261011-001)
- [Result R-RP005A001](https://github.com/omasim/Autorite/blob/main/research/RP005A/audit-001/result/RECORD.md)
- [Decision D-0007](https://autorite.net/sources/rp005a-package-decision/)